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Belmont Attendance & Triple Crowns: Don’t Get Your Hopes Up

The official announced attendance for the 2004 Belmont Stakes, the year the much-loved Smarty Jones attempted to become the 12th winner of the Triple Crown, was 120,319, breaking the old record of 103,222, set two years previous, when War Emblem, like Smarty Jones, failed to win the third leg of horse racing’s greatest quest after winning the first…

June 6, 2014 in Belmont Stakes, Triple Crown.

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